- What method of arranging elements into related groups was
invented by Dimitri Mendeleyev?
- What physicist remarked: "God is subtle, but he is not
malicious"?
- What M-word defines anything that occupies space?
- What do you call a substance containing only one kind of atom?
- What teenager began studying physics after he noticed a
chandelier swinging during a 1581 earthquake?
- What elementary particle's antiparticle is the positron?
- What element comes last alphabetically?
- What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and
pitchblende?
- What American physicist pioneered the theory of "black
holes" in 1939?
- What's a charged atom, with unequal numbers of electrons and
protons?
- What theory of physics proposes that energy is not
transferred continuously but in discrete amounts>
- What element was converted to plutonium in the first
nuclear reactors?
- What acronyms for "Weakly Interacting Massive Particles " and
"Massive Compact Halo Objects" do physicists use to explain dark
matter?
- What astronomical term gradually replaced the cumbersome
"gravitationally completely collapsed object"?
- What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission
of radiation"?
- What's a single unit of quanta called?
- What did scientists build in a squash court under a
football stadium at the University of Chicago in 1942?
- What's the atomic number of hydrogen?
- What element begins with the letter "k"?
- What F-word is defined in physics as a "nuclear reaction in
which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei"?
- What E-word was the first elementary particle to be
discovered?
Trivia Answers
- The periodic table.
- Albert Einstein.
- Matter.
- An element.
- Galileo.
- The electron.
- Zirconium.
- Uranium.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- An Ion.
- The quantum theory.
- Uranium.
- Wimps and Machos.
- Black Hole.
- Laser.
- A quantum.
- A nuclear reactor.
- One.
- Krypton.
- Fusion.
- The electron.
